[Python-Dev] Rationale for NamedTemporaryFile? (original) (raw)

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Wed Mar 21 12:01:17 CET 2007

Greg Ewing wrote:

A tangential question -- why are TemporaryFile and NamedTemporaryFile named in TitleCase, when they're functions and not classes?

I wondered the same. At first draft of my email I wrote "class" operating under the assumption that only classes got to be camel-cased. If I had to guess, the rationale was that they are simply wrappers a class. Nevertheless, tempfile dates well back before the PEP 8 style guidelines. I think consistency would dictate that a newly added function should match the other ones, but I have no strong feelings about this.

-Scott

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